Remember that scene in Marie Antoinette when her brother visited Versailles? They sat down in front of a tea service and she started talking excitedly about tea someone brought her from China.
She tells her brother to watch the flower in the cup and when she poured the water over it, the flower started blooming.
I remember thinking, "I want tea like that!"
Well, imagine my excitement when I found they actually sell flowering tea! I bought some today and am in the process of boiling water for it right now.
The company is Numi and the product is called Flowering Tea.
It a glass pot and 5 blossoms. The one I'm trying right now is Golden Jasmine (since the tea they had in the movie was jasmine).
The tea takes about three to four minutes to fully bloom.
(You can also save the blossom and resteep it 2 - 3 more times.)
I bought mine at Indigo, but you can also get it here:
http://www.worldpantry.com/cgi-bin/...prmenbr=175633&prrfnbr=800938&pcgrfnbr=191380
Once you have the teapot, you can order just the blossoms.
She tells her brother to watch the flower in the cup and when she poured the water over it, the flower started blooming.
I remember thinking, "I want tea like that!"
Well, imagine my excitement when I found they actually sell flowering tea! I bought some today and am in the process of boiling water for it right now.
The company is Numi and the product is called Flowering Tea.
It a glass pot and 5 blossoms. The one I'm trying right now is Golden Jasmine (since the tea they had in the movie was jasmine).
The tea takes about three to four minutes to fully bloom.
(You can also save the blossom and resteep it 2 - 3 more times.)
I bought mine at Indigo, but you can also get it here:
http://www.worldpantry.com/cgi-bin/...prmenbr=175633&prrfnbr=800938&pcgrfnbr=191380
Once you have the teapot, you can order just the blossoms.